Anyone have parking wars with their neighbours?

I have room for 4 cars and also a garage, however it's all mortagaged to the hilt, out side my house has a single yellow between 10am and 11am to stop people parking all day as we are close to the station.

My first house had communal parking with ridiculously small spaces, some had never ending arguments I just parked on the street as it was a cul de sac.

I feel sorry for you guys who have to park on the street in cities
 
Pete19s said:
We live in a new development and like all new estates regardless of how big your house is etc you get one space and that is your lot.
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People always say this, but I live in a new house and can have 3 cars on the drive and 2 on the roadside without blocking my drive or anyone elses.

Its only 2 bedroom too!
 
I used to have real problems where I used to live.

Gladly now I have a driveway.

My major issue now though is as I live next to the racecourse, visitors on race day park right outside my house and at the last big event in August people were double parked at the end of my road and this prevented me getting off my drive.
 
My opposite neighbour engaged in parking wars a few years ago. He's always parked his cars on his driveway, at the time my driveway only had space for 1 car so I'd park my car on the road. One evening I came back from work and with there being no other nearby spaces parked outside his house. Next day as soon as I'd moved my car to go to work the wife told me that he immediately moved both his cars onto the road outside his house. In the late evening he would then move the cars back onto his driveway.

He did this for around a month, the sad thing is that I didn't give a spurt of baboons jiz what he wasted his time doing, push come to shove I also had a second driveway and garage on the side of house that I could have used.
 
anticonscience said:
I used to have real problems where I used to live.

Gladly now I have a driveway.

My major issue now though is as I live next to the racecourse, visitors on race day park right outside my house and at the last big event in August people were double parked at the end of my road and this prevented me getting off my drive.
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has to be someone you can call?
 
Defcon5 said:
People always say this, but I live in a new house and can have 3 cars on the drive and 2 on the roadside without blocking my drive or anyone elses.

Its only 2 bedroom too!
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I'm sure there are spacious new developments out there but Pete's description describes all the ones I've seen in our area.
 
stulid said:
has to be someone you can call?
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Really not sure who. The Council? The racecourse management?

It really is a nightmare at big race events, they double park at the end of the road, and then park opposite my driveway.

I would go out and say something to the people, but there are no yellow lines or anything.

It doesn't happen very often, maybe twice a year, but it's very annoying.
 
I used to but luckily now I have a driveway and a garage. My car ended up with scratches to both bumpers as everyone used to try and squeeze their cars into the smallest gaps. Me and my GF worked nights together and we both had cars so we came up with the plan that we would position one of the cars so their was always space for both when one returned.
 
lordrobs said:
I doubt it is but if no one complains...

And even if someone does complain it will take forever to be looked in to.
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I would imagine that

a) The title of the house states (as most new builds do) that businesses cannot be run from the property

b) That the council would be interested in someone clearly using residential property for commercial parking

If you don't complain why expect someone else to? I wouldn't put up with that.
 
We used to have terrible problems but after having a driveway built its fine. Had big arguments with the snotty woman across the road who knew her rights and wasn't prepared to work things out amicably. She even damaged my old Impreza.

Still, she parked in our work car park once and got clamped - sweet justice. :D
 
Skii said:
We have a family on our cul-de-sac who appear to be running a car hire / airport parking business, they can have anything up to 11 cars sometimes strewn across their garden, across the front of their house and in all of the available visitors spaces, sometimes they overhang their driveway and have cars parked across making it very awkward to get in and out of my parking space. New cars keep turning up every day and sitting there without being moved for weeks at a time.

He's even managed to block people from driving in and out of the car park at the top of the picture by having so many cars parked end to end.


All the cars with a red dot belong to the house (arrowed) - and this is on a quiet day !
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Jeez man get this man reported, it looks like something is happening and it needs to stop. Believe me the council will take a very dim view of someone running a business like this in a residential area.
 
We have a driveway which mum parks on. My brother and I then park on the grass which we have some rubber driveway matting sunk in. Give us some grip in the winter as opposed to sliding about on the mud!

Lots of vans & 4x4's right outside our house though. Both side of the road usually full with cars. Makes nosing out a nightmare as you can literally see nothing.

It's also a bus route too and quite often buses get stuck and sit there beeping till someone comes and moves their car or van.

There's a school just around the courner too and pick up time in the afteroons is ridiculous.
 
I have noticed over the years more and more cars being parked on side streets near me, its getting so bad that car are double parking on main roads and you can only get one lane of traffic instead of 2, its only going to get worst as more younger people drive.

We have a drive big enough for 3 cars and a spot outside the house
 
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